New from Red Brick House Press
A debut by Surya Sabarwal
Finish the line
Somewhere there’s a version of you that somebody remembers fondly,
and you will never find out which one it was.
Epigraph to Villain in Someone’s Story
That’s three. The book has forty more, and each one opens a poem or monologue that keeps going where this stops.
Find the other fortyThe book
Four parts of one life.
Most of them are yours too.
From the certainty of sixteen to what remains at twenty eight: first love, the wrong lessons, grief, ambition, and the quiet work of getting back up.
Written in poems and short prose monologues, in a voice that sounds a lot like the one in your head when you can’t sleep.
You will spend years getting somewhere,
and about four minutes being there.
Nobody mentions the ratio.
The Preface takes about four minutes to read. Seems fair.
The press
Red Brick House Press
A small, independent press for poetry and prose that says the thing out loud. Books that read like a voice you recognize, and stay with you after the last page.
We are just getting started, which is the most honest thing a press can say. Nobody Told You It Would Feel Like This is our first book.
You’ve read this far.
That’s usually a sign.